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Originally Posted by GirlySports
I think this is true. Worker-boss relationship in office jobs are equivalent to teenager-parent relationship. The younger generation is ahead and uses technology to their advantage.
The boss asks when you can get something done and you tell him it's complex and will take some time, maybe a couple days. You already have scripts and templates that you can set up and complete in an hour or two and bugger off the rest. The boss gets it in a day and a half instead of two and he's happy because you were fast.
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I don’t know about the last part. There are a lot of other interactions between team members and if someone told me a simple task was complex and needed days to complete, I’d question it, especially if that person becomes the bottleneck in completing my own tasks.
That said, some managers can be pretty oblivious, so someone underperforming or padding their time for rudimentary tasks, is likely to continue doing that. We have a guy who is like that, but the manager thinks this guy is the bee’s knees. Gets through his probation period just coasting, watching youtube, and daydreaming all day (in the office). Management doesn’t know any better, and didn’t bother to consult the people that work with him, so now we’re stuck with this guy that we have to come in to the office to keep on track.